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Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities. Chinese-European Workshop on Digital Preservation Beijing July 14 -16 2004 rene.van.horik@niwi.knaw.nl. Issues covered in presentation. Scientific data archives in the Humanities & Social Sciences European situation
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Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on Digital Preservation Beijing July 14 -16 2004 rene.van.horik@niwi.knaw.nl Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Issues covered in presentation • Scientific data archives in the Humanities & Social Sciences • European situation • Important standards relevant for preservation • Changing research practice and influence on data archiving Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Scientific data archives in the Humanities & Social Sciences • Humanities: branches of knowledge that are concerned with human thought and culture; the liberal arts. • Social Science: The study of human society and of individual relationships in and to society. Scientific data archives created by: Historian, Art-historian, Archaeologist, Linguist, Sociologist, Psychologist, Anthropologist, Economist, Theologian, … Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
European social science data archives Source: http://www.nsd.uib.no/Cessda/europe.html Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Data archiving scheme Steinmetz-archive Depositors Acquisition Processing of data and documentation Publication Archiving Distribution Clients Users Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Electronic text archives • E.g. Oxford Text Archive, established 1976 (http://www.ota.ahds.ac.uk/) • Importance of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), standard for describing content, context and structure of electronic texts (see: http://www.tei-c.org) Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Historical Data Archives • Both structured and unstructured data • Archiving routines based on Social Science Data Archives • Source oriented computing vs. problem oriented computing and its impact on data archiving methods • Importance of relation Dataset – Historical Source Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Public Record Offices • Relative recent interest in digital archiving • Definition issues (Record management standard ISO 15489 defines business principles behind records management and defines how organizations can establish a framework to enable a comprehensive records management programme) • Adoption of principle of provenance in digital environment Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
International situation • International collaboration • IFDO (International Federation of Data Organisations) • CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives) • User oriented organisations • AHC (Association for History & Computing) • ACH/ALLC (Ass. for computers in the Humanities / Ass. for literary & linguistic computing) Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Important standards • OAIS (helps to establish common vocabulary) • DDI (Data Documentation Initiative, technical documentation for social science data (http://www.icpsr.umich/DDI). • TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) • XML based standards, e.g. METS • EAD (Encoded Archival Description) (http://www.loc.gov/ead/) • ISAD (International Standard for Archival Descriptions) (http://www.ica.org/biblio/cds/isad_g_2e.pdf) Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004
Changing research practices and influence on data archiving • Scholars working together in networked environment (“collaboratory” / “sharium”) • Data archives must be active at the beginning of the life cycle • Central vs. distributed models of storage • Open Access Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities Chinese-European Workshop on digital preservation. Beijing. July 14-16 2004